On 13/07/2012 7:12 PM, Alison Craig wrote: > > The problem is Appendix B. No matter what I do, I can?t get the > *Pagination* option *Delete Empty Pages* to stick. > > > Whenever I *Update* the file it always reverts to *Make Page Count Even*. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? >
Alison, I've opened your files and looked at the pagination settings. All your files are set to Double-sided, first page Right. And all your files coincidentally contain an even number of pages except for App. B and C (last file in the book), which have only one page of content each. You don't see any blank pages in any of the files other than App. B because they already have an even number of pages of content, or (in the case of the one-page App. C) no file following. But if App. B starts on page 17 and App. C starts on page 19, FM has no choice but to make the page count of App. B even by adding a blank page 18 when you update the book. FM changes the dialog box setting accordingly. If you don't want the back of App. B's single page to be blank, you have to set App. C to start on Next Available, not Right. The setting "Delete Empty Pages" would be more easily understood if it were called "Delete Unnecessary Empty Pages." The purpose of the setting is to handle the situation where the addition of content has first increased the number of pages required to hold the flow, and deletion of content has subsequently reduced the number of pages required. When you add content, FM automatically adds pages, but when the content shrinks, FM does *not* automatically delete pages left empty. Hence there's the option when saving to delete such (unnecessary) blank pages. But as in your App. B, sometimes blank pages are *necessary* to meet the requirement of double-sided and/or first page Right. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
